Sentence examples for lawless state from inspiring English sources

"No one is immune from a lawless state".

Officials are frequently killed or kidnapped by gangs in Bihar, the country's most lawless state.

Corruption is rife and human trafficking threatens to entrench a lawless state on Europe's doorstep.

Gaza was turning into a lawless state, with Palestinian militias launching Qassam rockets into Israeli territory and the Israeli Army killing militants, mainly from the air.

The resumption of the Premier League, everyone said, was important to show the world that England was not a lawless state.

It's true that no one wants to totally and completely unchain Wall Street so that bankers can do absolutely whatever they want in a lawless state of nature.

The internet as a lawless anarchic state?

We must ensure that lawless states and terrorists will not be armed with weapons of mass destruction.

He was also famous for failing to improve the lot of one of India's poorest and most lawless states, and for a raft of corruption charges that put him in jail five times.

It's important here to distinguish (it is not always possible) between asylum seekers from places like Syria, to whom we should feel an obligation, one fairly to be shared, and the economic migrants from hard-pressed parts of Africa who cross the Mediterranean from lawless states like Libya, often with the "help" of brutal people smugglers.

Kevin Costner's 1991 film introduced us, in solid American tones, to "a time when the only way to uphold justice was to break the law", which given the semi-lawless state of medieval society was something of a tautology.